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[Buckguy20]

I tested mine this morning.
They are stupid. All of them did poorly in math, and reading . . . well forget about it.
The only thing they are good at is eating. They got a superior rating in that.

 

[sjarvis00]

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Monty,
I believe my big birds may have yours beat on teh eating evaluation, and if they keep at the rate they are going I may eat them.. and just stick to the small birds. I'm fairly certian I can maintain 4 pens of bantams for what 1 pen of Big birds costs me to keep. This is getting to be a serious thought to get rid of all the LF and go to nothing but Bantam.

 

[Ksane]

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Monty,
I believe my big birds may have yours beat on teh eating evaluation, and if they keep at the rate they are going I may eat them.. and just stick to the small birds. I'm fairly certian I can maintain 4 pens of bantams for what 1 pen of Big birds costs me to keep. This is getting to be a serious thought to get rid of all the LF and go to nothing but Bantam.

Carl, what LF's do you have? I remember seeing some like your avatar, are they LF?
Duh. I should've just read your signature lol

 

[sjarvis00]

Quote:
Monty,
I believe my big birds may have yours beat on teh eating evaluation, and if they keep at the rate they are going I may eat them.. and just stick to the small birds. I'm fairly certian I can maintain 4 pens of bantams for what 1 pen of Big birds costs me to keep. This is getting to be a serious thought to get rid of all the LF and go to nothing but Bantam.

Carl, what LF's do you have? I remember seeing some like your avatar, are they LF?
Duh. I should've just read your signature lol

I am currently down to a Breeder trio of Blue Cochin, and a Breeder quad of Columbian Wyandotte. I will admit the feed bill is 1/4 what it was by getting rid of the other 4 varieties of LF cochin, and with the BLRW being gone at the moment. that is saving us nearly 200lbs of feed a week between the breeder pens and growing out youngsters. I am really debating on having any LF next year but will wait see what the fall / winter / and spring hatching seasons bring and what the real market turns out to be next year. If the extreme heat continues and teh market does not really recover then they too will leave and I will stick with the Bantams only. I have had several and will likely return to Bantam Wyandotte. They eat much less, lay very well, and teh egg size is more than 2/3 the size of teh LF wyandotte so for a laying flock and gentle show birds both the Bantam Wyandotte makes sense to me.

 

[faerielady]

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*takes notes for future reference* Do you still have your OE bantams? Curiosity... it burns me.

 

[faerielady]

Audit went well. Auditor always mentions the "why" of having to come out and see the facility, considering the agency pioneered this outreach program in the Metro. Like I told her, the Fed likes it when we dot all our i's and cross all our t's. She agreed with me.

Currently eating lunch with James at the house and he's killing off banshees on WoW, which look suspiciously like OE chickens. Or maybe that's just me.

 

[Ksane]

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The big Cochins do eat a lot, true. But I'm sooo smitten with them. Their chunky fuzzy butts waddling fast as they can chasing things, adorable. If I were into chickens for anything other than pets I probably wouldn't have so many Cochins. I've got lots of time to decide what to get next. It's hard finding a breed I like that A. Can't fly B. Are super docile and C. I think are gorgeous. I quite possibly will end up just finding different colored LF Cochins. That'd be my preference.

 

[Sooner]

Quote:
Monty,
I believe my big birds may have yours beat on teh eating evaluation, and if they keep at the rate they are going I may eat them.. and just stick to the small birds. I'm fairly certian I can maintain 4 pens of bantams for what 1 pen of Big birds costs me to keep. This is getting to be a serious thought to get rid of all the LF and go to nothing but Bantam.

The amazing amount of waste that I clean up is killing me! I really have to come up with a better plan.

 

[artsyrobin]

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Carl, what LF's do you have? I remember seeing some like your avatar, are they LF?
Duh. I should've just read your signature lol

will likely return to Bantam Wyandotte. They eat much less, lay very well, and teh egg size is more than 2/3 the size of teh LF wyandotte so for a laying flock and gentle show birds both the Bantam Wyandotte makes sense to me.

well now you have me thinking, so the egg size is close to a regular size and for less feed??? i am looking at the blrw coloring and getting swayed to more bantams in the future....

 

[sjarvis00]

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*takes notes for future reference* Do you still have your OE bantams? Curiosity... it burns me.

I have so many OE it's not even funny.. Will have some additions of Bantam Wyandotte in the next two months or so (Nov. Dec) and will likely add a few more varieties beyond what is coming in.